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The Bombay High Court Thursday said a "high level of tolerance" displayed by Mumbai residents has allowed the local civic body to be apathetic towards the poor condition of roads. A division bench of Chief Justice N H Patil and Justice N M Jamdar expressed displeasure over the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) ignoring its orders on the issue of potholes and bad condition of roads in the metropolis. The bench noted that till date the civic body has failed to comply with several court orders on the matter. Читать дальше...

Pay-to-play education loopholes are standard for wealthy kids, and it starts early with public school inequality

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HDFC Capital Advisors and realty firm Tribeca Thursday announced a Rs 500 crore fund for development of mid-income housing projects in Mumbai and Delhi-NCR. The projects will be developed by Tribeca, which is developing two Trump Tower projects in Kolkata and Gurugram. HDFC Capital Advisors, which is the real estate-focused fund management arm of HDFC Ltd, and Tribeca said the platform will invest Rs 500 crore through a combination of debt and equity. This is probably for the first time, HDFC Capital... Читать дальше...

HTC released further details about its new all-you-can-eat VR subscription service Viveport Infinity Thursday: The service will launch on April 2, and cost $12.99 per month, or $99 per year for users who pre-pay all 12 months. “We have built a new model for VR that shines a light on the great library of VR […]

USA team-mates Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris have announced they will get married this year. The international duo revealed they have been dating for nine years after deciding to go public with the news. Stopper Harris decided she had found her keeper and proposed to 34-year-old centre-back Krieger in Florida last year. They met while […]

USA team-mates Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris have announced they will get married this year. The international duo revealed they have been dating for nine years after deciding to go public with the news. Stopper Harris decided she had found her keeper and proposed to 34-year-old centre-back Krieger in Florida last year. They met while […]

Storm Gareth destroys completely what Storm Eric had started, total carnage at Bacup Borough three days before The Division One League Cup Semi Final First Leg tie with Avro.

Australia's Shane Watson believes that rookie fast bowler Mohammad Hasnain could be a handful for the Australians in the upcoming five-match one-day series in the United Arab Emirates. Watson, who has come to Karachi after 15 years, is playing for the Quetta Gladiators franchise, which picked Hasnain as an emerging player. "I have never seen a 18-year old bowl at such pace and I think even on the UAE pitches he will be a difficult proposition for the Australian team," Watson said. "Hasnain's control... Читать дальше...

Driverless delivery startup Nuro announced it has expanded its partnership with Kroger to include two store locations in Houston.

A tearjerking romance centered around two teenagers living with cystic fibrosis, first-time feature director Justin Baldoni’s “Five Feet Apart” is ultimately little more than a cover band treatment of “The Fault in Our Stars.” But as far as cover bands go, at least it has a hell of a frontwoman in Haley Lu Richardson. Fresh […]

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ArangoDB, a startup developing an open source NoSQL database product, announced that it has raised $10 million in financing.

Buoyant, a San Francisco startup developing a network mesh solution for cloud apps, has raised $10 million in a fresh financing round.

Liverpool’s victory in Munich was the best European result of the season for the Reds; Steven Scragg looks at what’s […]

Computer vision startup Polarr, which develops apps used by more than 20 million users collectively, has raised $11.5 million.

Before wrapping up his official visit to Iraq, President Hassan Rouhani was granted a rare audience with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, an Iranian-born Shi’ite cleric based in Iraq, and one of the highest religious authorities in the Shi’ite world. Sistani rarely meets officials, and the exception he made for Rouhani marked the first time the ayatollah has met with a sitting Iranian president. He rejected an offer to meet with Rouhani’s predecessor, hard-line Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his 2008 visit to Iraq. Читать дальше...

DeMarcus Cousins had a season-high 27 points in the Warriors' win over the Houston Rockets

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi Thursday lashed out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said unlike him and his party, the BJP, the Congress listens to everyone and does not impose anything upon the people. Addressing a massive 'Jana Maha Rally' of Congress workers here, Gandhi kick-started the state-level campaign of the party for the Lok Sabha polls. Hitting out at Modi, the congress president said the job of the Prime Minister was not to impose his 'Mann ki Baat' but to listen to the Mann ki Baat' of the people. Читать дальше...